单词 | to be even |
释义 | > as lemmasto be even 14. Equal in rank, status, power, etc. In later use also: on equal terms or on an equal footing in any respect. Frequently in to be even, to be even with (a person).Not always clearly distinguishable from sense A. 13a and to be even with at Phrases 6.In quot. eOE: (of a person) consciously dealing on equal terms (with one's inferiors). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [adjective] > co-equal or of the same measure or standing eveneOE evenmetec1175 egallc1374 coequala1475 equal1526 fellowlike1526 democratic1811 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equal to or match to be even witheOE match?1529 countervail1530 even1582 suit1583 patterna1586 amate1590 proportionate1590 parallela1594 fellow1596 to hold its level with1598 adequate1599 coequal1599 twin1605 paragonize1606 peer1614 to come upa1616 proportiona1616 paragon1620 parallelize1620 tail1639 to match up to (also with)1958 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xvii. 113 Wel hine [sc. anweald] recð se ðe conn wel stræc bion & ahæfen wið ða unryhtwisan & wið ða scyldgan & wel emn wið oðre men [L. scit cum illa ceteris aequalitate componi]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1840 Niss nani þing þatt muȝhe ben Wiþþ godd off efenn mahhte. a1250 Lofsong Louerde in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 209 (MED) Þe oli goste þet is efne wið þe and wið þin eadi feder. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11441 At þine borde..scal þe hehȝe beon æfne [c1300 Otho efne] þan loȝe. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 92 (MED) The hali gast, That samenly comes of bothe the fadir and the son, Is sothefastly god, and euen til tham bothe. 1372 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 79 His fader is king of heuene..To wam þat child is euene. a1425 (?c1384) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 341 Sum men seien, þat he [sc. the pope] is even wiþ the manheed of Crist. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 85 We awe not to arett..þingis formid of mannis craft, heyar nor euen to man in kynd. 1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) i. xxxii. sig. ei/1 He [sc. the feende] hatith god that is souerayn treuthe, & for he mighte nat be euyn with god in soueraynte of treuthe..therfore his likyng and his trauayl is to be souerayne falshede & souereynly false. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 103 These thre persones [sc. of the Trinity]..were alyke euen in all thynges. 1565 J. Jewel tr. St. John Chrysostom in Replie Hardinges Answeare xii. 448 The Figure may not be farre of from the Truethe: otherwise it were no Figure: Neither maye it be eauen, and one with the Truethe. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 86 You wil..imbrace anie religion which will be euen with the profession that fauors not you. 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 17 For all this, man is euen with Death. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 117 Nevertheless, we may hold such a body to be even with another. 1707 P. A. Motteux Farewel Folly iii. 43 Mar. When we Town Sparks are tir'd with a Fashion, such Chapman as You are welcome to carry it down into the Country for a new thing. Lub. Why, then we are even with ye..for, when we've had enough of a good thing there, We send our trash to you Londoners. 1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid i. v. 11 I am not the first Gentleman..who has been even with his Master. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxix. 297 Does he lay every-body that knows him under obligation? Is there no way to be even with him in any one thing? 1832 Age 15 Jan. 21/3 The archiepiscopal member for Oxfordshire..will gladly accept a peerage to be even in rank with his lady-wife. 1842 Planet 11 Dec. 6/4 ‘I have a brother who is a poet.’ ‘Then we are even..for I have a brother who is a fool.’ 1903 Northwestern Christian Advocate 1 Apr. 9/2 She thinks my preaching now is better than my practicing. And I say that her practicing is better than her preaching. So, we're even. 1986 Harvard Business School Bull. June Notes 7/1 He..talks about having dinner with Adolph A. Berle... I am even with him in that respect, for Berle visited Charleston in 1940..just across the street from my apartment. 2014 K. McCafferty Dead Man's Fancy (2015) iv. 28 ‘For the life of me, I can't see what Sean sees in you.’ ‘And I can't see what he sees in you. That makes us even.’ < as lemmas |
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